Too Much of a Good Thing: Solar Overloads Europe’s Electricity System
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AI-PoweredEurope's rapid growth in solar power generation capacity is causing overloads in the electricity system, making the grid vulnerable to excess voltage, not just limited to Spain and Portugal, but a widespread issue across the continent.
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When the official report on the Spain and Portugal blackout from April came out, it described a grid made vulnerable to excess voltage as a result of the fast growth of weather-dependent generators. But this excess voltage problem is not just reserved for the Iberian Peninsula. The whole of Europe has become vulnerable. Last year, a total of 65.5 GW of solar generation capacity was installed across the European Union. It was a record high, and the fourth record-high year of installations in a row, as reported by the EU’s solar power industry…
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